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3 unusual facts about Fingers


Fingers, Inc.

Ron Wilson is also known for his work with the Chicago house group in the mid-1980s, and popular solo tracks produced by Larry Heard such as 'Prove It To Me'.

Frankie Knuckles

Then came more production work, including Jamie Principle's "Baby Wants to Ride", and later "Tears" with Robert Owens (of Fingers, Inc.) and (Knuckles' protégé and future Def Mix associate) Satoshi Tomiie.

WMSI-FM

Mississippi artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Greg "Fingers" Taylor and Paul Davis were played, and occasionally saw their songs achieve local hit status.


Ali McMordie

After Stiff Little Fingers disbanded in 1983, McMordie formed Friction Groove with a group of Reading musicians who were in a successful local band, Between Pictures.

Ancient Greek medicine

He is given credit for the first purple description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease.

Arkansas School for the Deaf

ASD students participate in a variety of clubs and organizations including Junior National Association of the Deaf, SkillsUSA, Journalism, Optimism, Yearbook Staff, National Science Fair Competition, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Student Council, and Singing Fingers.

Arthur Batten-Pooll

On 25 June 1916 near Colonne, France, Lieutenant Henry-Batten-Pooll was in command of a raiding party when, on entering the enemy's lines he was severely wounded by a bomb which broke and mutilated all the fingers of his right hand.

Balrampur

Balrampur city is in close vicinity of Shravasti where Lord Gautam Buddha is considered to have displayed his supernatural powers in the spiritual transformation of Angulimala, a famous dacoit who wore a necklace (mala) of fingers (anguli).

Battle of Ekeren

The battle was a victory for the French, but Boufflers wasn't congratulated at all, he was blamed for letting the chance of a total victory slip through his fingers.

Big red button

In his "MLF Lullaby," singer/satirist Tom Lehrer noted that development of a "Multi-Lateral (nuclear) Force" would ensure that "one of the fingers on the button will be German."

Blue Rondo à la Turk

Sergey Kuryokhin on "Some combinations of fingers and passion" (as "A Combination Of Power And Passion (Blue Rondo A La Russ)")

Boris Schapiro

They conferred with Alan Truscott, the The New York Times bridge editor, and agreed they would all observe Reese–Schapiro and record how many fingers were visible when each held his cards in each hand.

Bronisław Huberman

The following year, his career nearly ended as a result of an airplane accident in Sumatra in which his wrist and two fingers of his left hand were broken.

Canape

Canapé, a small, prepared and usually decorative food, held in the fingers

Carlos Jiménez

The photo was a feature ad as a newspaper spread in Spain, showing all players using their fingers to apparently make their eyes look more Chinese (Epicanthic fold) on a basketball court adorned with a Chinese dragon.

Classical guitar technique

In the tremolo technique, the thumb plays a bass note followed by the fingers which play the same treble note three times: pami, pami, pami etc. (Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega is a famous example of this technique).

Dorothy Taubman

This will avoid twisting the wrists out of alignment (ulnar/radial deviation, dorsiflexion) or curling the fingers excessively (antagonistic flexion/extension).

Eleventh finger

Polydactyly, a congenital anomaly in humans having supernumerary fingers or toes

Enuff Z'nuff

The band's first single, "Fingers On It," received some minor recognition when it was featured in the 1986 cult movie Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

Fico

Fig sign, a sign of contempt, rejection or refusal made with the fingers

Fingers of Love

"Fingers of Love" was performed by the band on their farewell concert Farewell to the World in 1996.

Fish-hooking

Fish-hooking is the act of inserting a finger or fingers of one or both hands into the mouth, nostrils or other orifices of a person, and pulling away from the centerline of the body; in most cases with the intention of pulling, tearing, or lacerating the surrounding tissue.

Gary Burbank

On September 23, 2009, Burbank returned to the airwaves at his old time slot of 3p-6p with then hosts Eddie Fingers and Tracy Jones promoting his new book "Voices In My Head."

Gerard von Brucken Fock

He tried for a couple of days to work as a farm laborer on the farm of his wife's uncle near Kruiningen, but on his first attempt to use the scythe he cut himself in the fingers.

Golpe

Golpe (guitar technique) is a Flamenco guitar technique where one uses the fingers to tap on the soundboard of the guitar, from the Spanish "golpe", meaning to strike.

Hexing

The description of this situation is complicated by the fact that the describers follow the hypothesis of Xu Xing that with Tetanurae — including birds and Hexing — the first, second and third fingers are actually the second, third and fourth.

John Houghtaling

Magic Fingers was also seen in the 1997 film Lolita, the 1998 Clay Pigeons, and in the episode of CSI VegasAssume Nothing” (season 4, episode 1).

John K. Beatty

"Mr. Beatty’s headlong execution on his superb set of pipes was as much of a surprise to Tarlach Mac Suibhne, the “Donegal Piper,” as was his lilting. After watching his acrobatic performance on the huge instrument for a time, McSweeney remarked quizzically: “Begor, Mr. Beatty, you have a great shower of fingers.”

Lighter

In August 2011 Stephen Fry chose the lighter as the greatest gadget in his Channel 4 programme Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets, one of the 100 Greatest strand, describing it as "fire with a flick of the fingers".

Markus Grosskopf

He regularly uses a pick for the more straightforward, simple bass lines, as in I Want Out or Just a Little Sign, and fingers for more lead-type playing, as on Eagle Fly Free or Halloween.

Max Sauco

2004 - the award from FIAP - MENTION D'HONNEUR for a series "Fingers" and "Mammself" on the third Odessa international photo salon

MIT class ring

Iron Man: Lieutenant Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes (played by Terrence Howard) and Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) both wear the Brass Rat, visible on their fingers.

Mr. Bubble

In The Simpsons episode "My Sister, My Sitter", Lisa tells Bart that he can use Mr. Bubble to wash his hands and says "It's like giving your fingers a bubble bath."

Northern Soul 2007

# Carol Jiani – "Work My Fingers to the Bone" (Levine, Scott, Carol Jiani)

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Pushing Buttons

In the United States, the EP was not released, but "Black Friday" and "More Than You Are" ended up on Guide to Better Living and "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" ended up on an ECW compilation released by Earache Records.

Snow blower

In December 2008, a snow blower accident made national headlines in the United States when Joe Sakic, the famous captain of the Colorado Avalanche hockey franchise of the National Hockey League, sustained three broken fingers and tendon damage when he attempted to clear the auger of his snowblower by hand.

Southern Rhodesian general election, 1980

Voters had their fingers marked with an invisible ink that showed up under Ultraviolet light to detect attempts to vote twice.

Sun Xiang

"The Dutch proposal is a great opportunity for me to take my career to a new level and I just can't let it slip through my fingers," Sun told the Shanghai Daily.

Tatou

"Tatou Strip Tease", a Dusty Fingers track from their Dusty Fingers Volume 15 album

Tea cosy

In the 2000 film Snatch, a tea cosy is placed over Franky Four Fingers' (Benicio del Toro's) head in place of a blindfold, when he is held captive by pawnbrokers-turned-robber-abductors Vinnie (Robbie Gee) and Sol (Lennie James).

The Exponents

The group formed in 1981 after vocalist Jordan Luck and guitarist Brian Jones disbanded their first group, Basement, and relocated from the South Canterbury town of Timaru to Christchurch with their ex-Splash Alley friend, Steve "Fingers" Cowan.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Her friend, the chef Mark Hix, has named a dish after Webster, 'Webster's Fish Fingers,' which are on the menu of his Soho restaurant Hix.

Touch typing

Many idiosyncratic styles in between those two exist — for example, many people will type blindly, but using only two to five fingers and not always in a systematic way.

Turrican II: The Final Fight

Amongst other changes, the eyeballs-walking-on-fingers became mini tanks, and instead of a large mech/steel dragon in the first stage, the player now faces a large representation of Dolph Lundgren's character in the film.

Two-finger salute

Another legend attributes the salute to the remembrance of Battle of Olszynka Grochowska in 1831, when a soldier who lost two fingers in the battle saluted his superior with a wounded hand.

Whips and Roses

"Cookoo" features elements of the Teaser instrumental "Homeward Strut", and "Flyin' Fingers" contains a segment of "Cucumber Slumber" from the Weather Report album Mysterious Traveller.

Yin Zhaohui

This oil on canvas painting was inspired by John Coplans’ “Self Portrait Fingers,” a series of photographs that show Coplan’s own hands in various sexually suggestive positions.


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